Mplayer Engine Support

[Ian Monroe]

There isn't an mplayer library so an 'mplayer' engine is impossible
pretty much. There is an ffmpeg library, but I think it works at a
lower level then a library like gstreamer or xine.

In reality though we don't have much interest in adding new engines.
Amarok 2 is probably just going to use Phonon (which is an abstract
layer that uses its own backends like libxine or gstreamer) or the
libxine engine we already have. That said... an engine that works
nicely on all three platforms would be nice, I almost started
developing a VideoLAN phonon engine this summer.

Thanks for your interest though! If your interested in helping out
developing trunk, read
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/2.0_Development_HowTo

Ian Monroe

On 5/12/07, Ahmed Soliman <ahmed at farghal.com> wrote:
> I'm a C++ Programmer and Professional Linux Systems engineer. I was thinking
> if we could add "Mplayer" engine to amarok to enable mplayer-based
> video/audio playback.
>
> I'm very new to amarok development and I want to know:
> 1-if anyone has worked on something like this before or not?
> 2-if it's possible
> 3-how can I start?
>
> --
> Thanks in Advance,
> --
> Eng.Ahmed Soliman
> Red Hat Support Engineer,
>
>  Linux Plus Information Systems L.L.C, http://www.linux-plus.com
> Personal Blog, www.ahmedsoliman.com
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